Introduction This is week 28 of 2023 and week 2 of #RE-VIZ-IT and I’m bringing back my VERY FIRST #WOW challenge from WAY BACK in the summer of 2018! I chose this challenge because “back in my day” this use case required additional sheets, a “custom” chart and a lot of sheet swapping. If you […]
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community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Hello and welcome to WoW week 28! This weeks topic takes it back to a fundamental lesson in CRM Analytics. I often get questions about data accuracy from users when they are comparing rows of data to the row count of a grouped chart or table. Have you ever experienced a case of “missing
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are going to have some fun with Power Query to obtain data from a website that spans multiple pages and then visualize the data in a treemap. Treemaps are meant to display hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. They aren’t a great replacement for bar charts when minor differences
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This July we bring you another month of challenges with a theme: We are going RETRO!Each coach will be going back through the WorkoutWednesday archives and re-vizzing a challenge from the past. It may be one of their favourite challenges, or maybe there’s a much easier way to do
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re exploring the new card visual that was released in preview this month. Key metrics are frequently displayed in reports, and in the past it took a combination of cards, images, and other visuals. Thanks to the new card visual, we now have more flexibility, options for
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are exploring the Component widget. Essentially it is a container with pages that allows you to quickly create and reuse dynamic areas of a dashboard! Components solve 2 main use cases: Reusability & maintainability (the components you create in this challenge will be used again in a future challenge!) Easily (through
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are tackling Antarctic ice data. The changing sea ice will represent significant challenges for ourselves but even more for future generations. One thing we’ve come to realize in the past few years is that changes are coming much faster than we ever anticipated. For this week’s challenge we’re going to use
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Meagan challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the Deneb custom visual available in Power BI AppSource. The week before, Shannon challenged us to make as many visuals as
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I saw this visualisation floating around my twitter and trending on Tableau Public and thought it would make a great challenge for Workout Wednesday. Big thanks to Jacob for letting me use his visualisation as inspiration today! In this weeks workout, I want you to look at the percent change between two dates, we
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Shannon challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the core visuals available in Power BI. This week’s challenge is to create visuals using the Deneb custom visual. I have
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday